What is your job?

panthro said:
Really? Thought there was only one guy there? What are you doing there?
Its hard times in SP at the moment, no doubt you have seen the latest statement from the CEO.......
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we're 4 people here
1 permanent and 3 agency workers
well the agency workers here are basically running it here and the 1 permanent does only the office work (orders and such).
or retrieving the scanned files for clients when they want them <--- most boring job ever when 1 file is 2,5k pages long and you have to scan them 1 by 1 ><

i actually haven't but i'll have a look in a minute :)
well but i'm losing faith in FW anyway since it seems i always have to work with people which don't know what they are doing :mad:
 
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Job: Maths student but on placement in the civil service doing statistics
Pay: about £23k
Working towards: end of my degree and who knows, the idea of my placement was to try and help me work out where i want to go but hasn't helped so far
 
panthro said:
You dont need any, the RAF will train you and award you the appropriate qualifications.
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Nice !

Just seemed quite a career step for someone with what seems at first glance no engineering experience at all. Good luck anyway.
 
spm_uk said:
Just wondering if anyone here is a Uni lecturer / professor and what kind of progression you have had?
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Degree -> Part III Mathematics -> PhD -> Departmental Fellowship -> College Fellowship -> ...

I'm expecting [...] to consist of less research and more admin. At the moment I do a fair amount of teaching, and stand in for the odd lecture. I'm toying with the possibility of giving a graduate course in something interesting next year, but the additional work/pay-off split isn't great for lecturing.
 
Jobs:
HR Supervisor,
Payroll & Accounts Supervisor,
HM Coastguard Search & Rescue Officer,
Community First Responder (in training)

Pay:
Not great for the first two,
minimum wage for the Coastguard,
voluntary for the Co-Responder
 
Job: Web services monitor
Salary: Pays the bills
Working towards: Anything else, money is good, hours are great but its soo boring :(
 
IVR & Telephony Analyst.
Around the national average.
Wanting to learn more and move in to the technical side of things, rather than the business/analytical side I currently work in.
 
Job: Senior ICT Advisor
Salary: Fine, public sector and took a pay cut to move here. Job security was more important for now.
Working towards management in the long term, I.T. is getting rather dull.
 
userunknown said:
Job: i build airbus planes
Salary: 33K+ depending if i can be arsed getting out of bed on a saturday
Working towards: to have atleast 10 days holiday left before may
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What part of planes do you build? Are you a sheet metal worker or something along CAM/CAD? My stepdad builds plane parts but as a sheet metal worker gets paid tuppence for the precision involved :(

Job: waitress
Pay: 5.21/hour
Duties: Dealing with people who like to complain about anything and everything! It's so refreshing when people come in that treat me like a human being.
 
Job - Warehouse Manager
Salary - Above £34k
Working towards a vacant General Manager position that I hopefully will fill in the not too distant future..!!
 
Main Job - Internet & Network Technical Support Engineer
On the side job - Technical support for local town/surrounding area
 
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Amp34 said:
Perhaps I went to the wrong type of university but a lecturer is a Doctor and one or two people that run the school/faculty are professors, then it goes vice chancellor? That sounds like an American scheme?

eg. 90% of the lecturers are not professors and you need to be very good and get to the top/managerial side to become a professor (at least in the UK as I think lecturers in the US are called professors?).
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I think it varies from uni to uni. From what ive seen, the best advice is to publish, publish, publish, and when you become known in your field you can apply for Professorship. They usually do have some management twang to their daily routine, head of dept. etc. Also the whole Principle/Vice Chan naming is usually dependant on the size of institution, from what I gather.
 
w11tho said:
Degree -> Part III Mathematics -> PhD -> Departmental Fellowship -> College Fellowship -> ...

I'm expecting [...] to consist of less research and more admin. At the moment I do a fair amount of teaching, and stand in for the odd lecture. I'm toying with the possibility of giving a graduate course in something interesting next year, but the additional work/pay-off split isn't great for lecturing.
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I'm guessing you are more interested in the research side than lecturing? how long have your fellowship postings been?
 
Job: Student (Economics) + RAF Reserves (Regiment)
Salary: About 7k inc loans and grants I think
Working towards: A decent grade, job and lifestyle
 
spm_uk said:
Just wondering what route you want to take after you complete the Doctorate to get to the 6 figure salary :) Im in the same boat.

PhD -> Lecturer -> Prof -> Principle?
PhD -> Hedgefund?
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Over here Physical Therapists make very decent money, especially after a few years. Starting out can be anywhere from $60-75k and then obviously more as you increase your experience and knowledge.
But I 'dream' of opening my own practice - but this will be a long way away :)
What Doctorate are you going for?
 
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